Sir John Denham FRS was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Sir John Denham
Denham's second wife Margaret Brooke, painted by Peter Lely.
Sir John Denham (1559–1639) was an English-born judge who spent part of his career in Ireland. He is chiefly remembered now as one of the "Ship-money judges" who decided the so-called Ship Money case, Rex v. Hampden. He was the father of the poet Sir John Denham.
Present day Egham, Surrey, where Denham spent his later years
Sir John Denham, poet, the judge's son